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HIS MOTHER'
RESTING PLACE IS NO WHERE TO BE
FOUND.
REPORTER: FOR DEREK IRVING
LOSING HIS MOM ONCE WAS BAD
ENOUGH.
>> THAT IS NOT HER.
>> HE HAD NO IDEA COULD HAPPEN
TWICE.
HIS MOTHER WAS MURDERED IN 1988.
SHE WAS BURIED INSIDE OF A
WOODEN BOX.
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS DEREK CAME
TO VISIT.
>> I LET HER KNOW I GOT MY
EDUCATION.
I HOPE SHE IS PROUD OF ME.
REPORTER: HE SAW HER GRAVE IN
2010.
THE GRAVE WAS GONE.
DEREK'S MOM IS NOT THE ONLY ONE
MISSING.
MANY GRAVES ARE IN DEPLORABLE
CONDITION.
IT IS LITERALLY IN PIECES.
I COUNTED ALL OF THE GRAVES AND
FOUND 150 WHERE NAMES WERE
UNREADABLE OR WHERE THERE WERE
NO NAMES AT ALL.
WHAT HAPPENED?
SUNSET MEMORIAL PARK WAS DONATED
IN 2001.
THE STATE SUED BECAUSE THEY WERE
NOT LICENSED OPERATING CEMETERY.
RECORDS ENTERED AND EVIDENCE
SHOWED 95 GRAVES WERE RECORDED
AS UNKNOWN.
12 OTHERS WERE LISTED AS HAVING
MORE THAN ONE PERSON BURIED
THERE.
>> IT MAY NOT MEAN ANYTHING TO
OTHER PEOPLE BUT IT MEANS A LOT
TO ME.
>> THE STATE SETTLE THE CASE
THAT NO MORE BURIALS WOULD TAKE
PLACE.
THE RECORDS WHICH HAD BEEN
ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE WERE
DESTROYED BY THE COURT.
NOBODY WANTED THEM.
>> WHY DID NO ONE RESPOND?
>> I HAVE NO IDEA.
PERHAPS THEY SHOULD HAVE.
>> THE CEMETERY IS OWNED BY THE
ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF VOLUSIA
COUNTY.
THEY CUT THE GRASS BUT IT MEANT
IS NOT ENOUGH TO REVERSE YEARS
OF NEGLECT.
QUITE SOMETIMES YOU ARE STUCK
TWEEN WHAT YOU CAN DO AND THE
FUNDS THAT YOU HAVE.
>> NO AMOUNT OF MONEY OR TIME
CAN HEAL OR DETER DEREK WHO IS
STILL SEARCHING FOR THE ONE
PERSON HE WANTS TO TALK TO THE
MOST.
>> I WILL LET HER KNOW I LOVE
HER.
ANGELA: WE CONTACTED THE FUNERAL
HOME.
THEY ALSO HAVE NO RECORDS.
THE STRUGGLE SOCIETY SAYS POOR
RECORD-KEEPING HAS BEEN A